Your Rights in the Emergency Room

Nov. 29, 2018 — The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, guarantees a certain level of medical care to anyone who comes to an emergency department that accepts payments from Medicare or Medicaid.

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Sorry, but stuff like this just cracks me up. Sounds nice in theory, but i’d love to see a “right” that made it possible to go to an ER without being screamed at, sneered at, called names, & just generally receiving scathing emotional abuse (as well as refusal to even consider that I might be there for a real problem, not just trying to SCORE DRUGS). I gave up trying to get help at ERs years ago, and still carry a whopping case of ER PTSD from the times I went with migraines that had me praying for death &/or severe dehydration from those same migraines.